Showing posts with label narcissism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label narcissism. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

And now, a word from our Sponsor, 2010 edition

While I'm not campaigning to be the world's greatest eccentric -- heaven forbid with the likes of Daniel Johnston and Michelle Bachmann milling about, I'd have about as much credence in that role as a two-legged pachyderm.

But! But I do have at least one quirk I'm happy to divulge and take the infamy/log into the running for contemporary log lady supreme.

Monday, January 25, 2010

And thenceforth our spam will be grilled and tinged with the flavor of musabi curry

This will be a short one. A few notes:
1) is anybody else tickled that, when they open up the spam folder in gmail, the ads at the top of the screen display recipes for the canned-mystery-meat-and-congealed-salt-lick of its namesake (i.e., spam)?

2) The story was happily completed on Saturday, although to be frank, I wish I had a chance to revise yet again. But in the way that only a week's worth of sitting time could have allowed. Final word count: around 2,050 words.

3) When I was a younger lad, about the age off 22, I was sitting at a restaurant bar in Columbia, Md., waiting on a friend to get off work. A man of African descent asks me if I'd ever "Played the Jones," which he went on to explain was essentially the "Your momma" series of jokes and that he wouldn't expect a pasty white boy like myself to know it, so no hard feelings. I looked this up recently on Urban Dictionary -- apparently it involves a crack habit. So I can't vouch for its fealty, but it's something that's bugged me.

UPDATE: In the course of writing this post, I discovered the proper spelling. "Joans." On the link, definition one. Damn, I'm white.